Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.