The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.