Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.