In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others..

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life..

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shap….

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence o….

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights..

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force..

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board..

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test..

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anx….

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by..

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and f….

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently....

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny..

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know..

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness..

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him..

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder..

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to….

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it..

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison..

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it..