Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.