“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”

“Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.”

“They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”

“Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.”