If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.