The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.