All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.