Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.