Brevity: To Say At Once Whatever Is

No People Are More Conceited Than Those Who Depict Their Own Feelings, Especially If They Happen To Have A Little Prose At Their Command For The Occasion.

We Often Have Need Of A Profound Philosophy To Restore To Our Feelings Their Original State Of Innocence, To Find Our Way Out Of The Rubble Of Things Alien To Us, To Begin To Feel For Ourselves And To Speak Ourselves, And I Might Almost Say To Exist Ourselves.

Actual Aristocracy Cannot Be Abolished By Any Law: All The Law Can Do Is Decree How It Is To Be Imparted And Who Is To Acquire It.

It Is In Most Cases More Difficult To Make Intelligent People Believe That You Are What You Are Not, Than Really To Become What You Would Appear To Be.

As Nations Improve, So Do Their Gods.