Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely