Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.