When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.