Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

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