A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

People who don't count won't count.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.