Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.