Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.