It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.