However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.