Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.