What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.