The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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

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

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.