To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.