Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Talent is often a defect in character.
Medicine: "Your money and your life!
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.