There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

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.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.