The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.