Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.