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.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

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.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.