If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.