Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.