He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.