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

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

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

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.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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