Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.