Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.