Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.