Giving is the business of the rich.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.