To advise is not to compel.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Only one who loves can remember so well.