Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside