Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.