The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

What is fruitful alone is true.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

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.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.