Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

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

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.