Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?