If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.