Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.