"You wish to know what you are doing, and how you are living, and what your relations are to society? Why, my friend, you are living in Paris, and Paris is the world."

"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."

"It is not the business of the law to punish men for their thoughts."