Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.