The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.