Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.