Life is too short to drink bad wine.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.