You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.