Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.