There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

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