"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

"Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity."

"We are always in our own company."

"The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it."

"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple."

"The love of money is the root of all virtue."