There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
Fame compensates for a column of wants.
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.