In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Let us be kinder to one another.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.