Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.