And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.