Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.