The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Thought is free.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Nothing is black or white.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.