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.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.