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.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.