Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

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.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.