“In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”

“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”

“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”