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.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.