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

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

...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.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.