Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.