I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

First impressions are always unreliable.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

All language is but a poor translation.