One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.