To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.