The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.