We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.