We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.