What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.