...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.