“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

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

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”

“Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.”