Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Years teach us more than books.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.