Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...

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