Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

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

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.