Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.