Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

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

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.