Great intellects are skeptical.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.