Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?