There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

People who don't count won't count.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

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.

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

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.