Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.