I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.