The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.