Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.