Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.