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

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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.

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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.