The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.