"I cannot abandon the principles which I used to hold in the past simply because this accident has happened to me; they seem to me to be much as they were, and I respect and regard the same principles now as before. So unless we can find better principles on this...
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good, which would be a splendid thing, if it were so. Actually they have neither. They cannot make a man wise or stupid; they simply act at...
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."