Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.