I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.