Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.