The hour-hand of life.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.