The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.