A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.