A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.