| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Auerbach |
| | | Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone. | 1 |
| Forgetting one’s self, or knowing one’s self, around these everything turns. | 2 |
| He who is one with himself is everything. | 3 |
| Imagination is the mightiest despot. | 4 |
| Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. | 5 |
| Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone. | 6 |
| One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. | 7 |
| The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all. | 8 |
| The best loneliness is when no human eye has rested on our face for a whole day. | 9 |
| The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love. | 10 |
| The best, the only correct actions are those which demand no explanation and no apology. | 11 |
| To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies. | 12 |
| We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. | 13 |
| What is the best in the world? Healthy blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves. | 14 |
| Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound? | 15 | | |
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