Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.