He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

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