There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.