“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”

“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose”

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”

“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing”