Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.