No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.