What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.