You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.