One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better..

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word..

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering ..

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike….

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd..

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't un….

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he kno….

Love is the cheapest of religions..

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time..

Love is desire for knowledge..

You don't remember days, you remember moments..

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children..

The only joy in the world is to begin..

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man..

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God..

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality..

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth….

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it..

A corpse is what's left after waking too often..

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding..