The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.