It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.