Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

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

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.