You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.