Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.