I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.