Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.