“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.”

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”

“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”