To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.