Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

The moon in her chariot of pearl