What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.