Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

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