A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.