“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to practice it at due times?”
“I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”
“The horror! The horror!”
“We live, as we dream—alone.”
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
“The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”
“Tell me what company thou keepest, and I will tell thee what thou art.”
“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
“In all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”
“To know what you know and what you do not know—that is true knowledge.”
“To see what is right and fail to act on it is want of courage.”