Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.