We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.