Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.