I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

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

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

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.