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.

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.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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.