Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.