Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.