Delicacy in woman is strength.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.