Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

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

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

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

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

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

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.