In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.