Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

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

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.