When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.