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

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.