Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.