Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.