Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.