He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.