A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

To have more, you must first be more.