What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.