The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

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.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

They do not think, therefore they are not.