I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

If youth knew; if age could.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.