I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.