Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

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.

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

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Live as if you were eternal.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.