Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.