A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

I will be lord over myself.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.