There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.