I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.