The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

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

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

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

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

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.