Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.