"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"You can make anything by writing."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."