To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.