You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

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

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

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