The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.