What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

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