The desire for order is the only order in the world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.