The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness