Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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