To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.