What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?