I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.