In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.