Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.