Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

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.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.