To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.