No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.