To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.