Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.