Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.