It's a luxury to be understood.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

The instinct of the people is right.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.