Everything matters. Nothing's important.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.