Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.