When One Has Finished Building One's House,

Mediocrity Is The Most Effective Mask A Superior Spirit Can Wear, Because To The Great Majority, Which Is To Say, To The Mediocre,it Will Not Suggest A Disguise:--and Yet It Is Precisely For Their Sake That He Puts It On--so As Not To Arouse Them, And, Indeed, Not Infrequently To Avoid This Out Of Pity And Benevolence.

Wherever Progress Is To Ensue, Deviating Natures Are Of Greatest Importance.

Man Is Very Well Defended Against Himself... The Actual Fortress Is Inaccessible, Even Invisible To Him, Unless His Friends And Enemies Play The Traitor And Conduct Him In By A Secret Path.

You Want To Make Him Interested In You? Then Pretend To Be Embarrassed In His Presence-

Laughter Means: Taking A Mischievous Delight In Someone Else's Uneasiness, But With A Good Conscience.