He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.