There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.