Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.