Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.