Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

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.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.