It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

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

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.