A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.