The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.