A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.