Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.