One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

One spares old people just as one spares children.