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.

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.

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

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

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.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.