No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Always ask, ‘Do you love me?’ before saying, ‘I love you.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

You cannot write well without data.

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.