Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.