I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.