In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.