The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.