In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.