Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

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.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

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.

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.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

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.