We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy