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

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.