Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

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

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.