Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.