Long only for what you have.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

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

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.