It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.