To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.