Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

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

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.