To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

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