A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.