There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.