Ideas too are a life and a world.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.