Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Existence begins in every instant.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.