If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

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

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.