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.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.