He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.