A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

The best day to pray is everyday.

Solitude is sanity.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.