If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.