Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.