The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

There are two words for everything.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.