Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?