Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

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

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Silence is the wit of fools.