I felt like poisoning a monk.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.