It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.