Nothing like a little judicious levity.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.