There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.