A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

almost all novels are love stories.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.