Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.