Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

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

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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