Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.