Our passions are ourselves.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.