We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.