The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.