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.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

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

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.