Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

“Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own” 

“A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.” 

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.” 

“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.” 

“Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.” 

“Dogs bark at what they don't understand.” 

“To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.” 

“It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.” 

“It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.” 

“Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.” 

“Everything flows and nothing stays.” 

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world” 

“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.” 

“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.” 

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” 

“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”