Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.