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

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.