Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.