The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Better know nothing than half-know many things.