Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Thrift is of great revenue.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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