If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.