The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

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

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

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

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.