Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.