The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

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

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

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