Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.