The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

The hour-hand of life.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.