One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.