The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.