The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.