The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

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

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.