Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.