If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.