God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

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

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

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.