reflection Quotes

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.