Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature