Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

The melancholia of everything completed!

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.