Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

The doer alone learneth.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.