Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.