Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.