“It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.”

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”

“I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.”

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”