The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

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

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.