Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.