After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.