A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.