You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.