Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

We must love or we grow ill.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.