Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

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

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.