» No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
» The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
» Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
» Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
» Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
» Despair is the only genuine atheism.
» Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
» The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
» The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
» Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.