...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Time is that in which all things pass away.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.