Word for word, the most epigramatic book I have read.
Short, sweet and beautiful words and lines and dialogue.
Here’s a few.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.