I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.