There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.