A word too much always defeats its purpose.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.