The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.