No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Virtue is no empty echo.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.