Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Every word is a prejudice.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.