If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

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.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.