The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.