How remorseless life is!

to teach without zest is a crime.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Language is wine upon the lips.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.