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

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.