With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion...
The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why on the contrary they are inferior to men as regards justice and less hono...
In fact, the conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Nay, from this point of view, we might well cons...