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

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

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised