The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.