A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.