It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.