Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.