To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.