There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

Vanity is but the surface.