How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.