Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

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.