It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.