Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.