Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.