To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.