"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!"

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"

"There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions."

"Man is more ape than many of the apes."

"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."

"And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me!"