Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.