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.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

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.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.