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.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.