Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.