It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.