It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

The color of truth is gray.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Only fools don't contradict themselves