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.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.