The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

History is only gossip.