Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.