Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Cries and Crying

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Genius

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Self-esteem

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.