Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

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.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.