Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.