From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.