Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

Please do not understand me too quickly.