Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.