Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.