You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.