A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.