Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.