Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.