It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.