An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.