Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others...
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
One should use common words to say uncommon things.
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.