There is always some madness in love.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.