“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”