Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.