The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.