That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?