The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.