What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.