In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.