Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.