When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.