Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.