Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.