Sects differ more in name than tenets.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.