Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.