Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.