The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.