His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.