The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.