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.

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

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

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.