A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.