Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.