It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.