Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.