Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.