“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

The world is my idea.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

I haven’t really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I’m too busy and – not in a bad way – don’t want to waste my time.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

I will forever commit to those that push my buttons but make me a better person.