And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.