Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

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

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.