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

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

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

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

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

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

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.