He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.