Remain true to the earth.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

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