The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.