Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters’s pearl.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Two elements are needed to form a truth – a fact and an abstraction.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Thinking is hard work. One can’t bear burdens and ideas at the same time.