I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

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

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.