To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.