Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Conventionality is not morality.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Look twice before you leap.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Who has words at the right moment?
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
