The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.