It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.