Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

One errs as long as one strives.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.