Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them