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

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

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.

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.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.