Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichTs.
Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.
There is no friend as loyal as a book
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
The artist is the child of his time but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.