The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.[Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui croit qu’on ne peut se passer de lui se trompe encore davantage.]
The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need.
Sometimes one sees things more clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
Some people, when they come into money, seem to attach undue importance to it.
Should a paralytic wish to run, or an active man not wish to do so, both will remain where they are.[Qu’un paralytique veuille courir, qu’un homme agile ne le veuille pas, tous deux resteront en place.]
Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad – deliciously mad – perverted – slightly twisted – then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
Quarrels would not last long were the wrong all on one side.[Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n’était que d’un côté.]
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
