There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.