Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.