The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.