Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.