Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.