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.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers