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

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Our passions are ourselves.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.