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.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

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

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.