Man shows his character best in trifles.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.