To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.