He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

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

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.