Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.