Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.