He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage— he won't encounter many rivals.

Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart.

I can't say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Hour-glasses remind us, not only of how time flies, but at the same time of the dust into which we shall one day decay.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit.

Everyone has a moral backside, which he won't show unless he has to, keeping it covered as long as possible with the pants of respectability.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.