One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.