The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.