It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.