How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.