Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

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

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

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.