Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

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