Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.