Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.