The future is a convenient place for dreams.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
People who don’t count won’t count.
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Our passions are ourselves.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
Silence is the wit of fools.
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.