Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

The contact of two epidermises.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.