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

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

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.

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