The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

No labor is hopeless.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.