All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.