. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.