Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?