Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.