In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.