One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.