It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.