I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.