When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Success has always been a great liar.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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