Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.