A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The hour-hand of life.

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.