Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.