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

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.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.