Sects differ more in name than tenets.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.