Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.