We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.