Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

My body and my will are one.

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