One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

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

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.