The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?