Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

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.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

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

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.