Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.