Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.