One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.