When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.