The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.