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

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.