For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.