If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty