Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.