Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.