The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

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.

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Delicacy in woman is strength.