Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.