Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.