No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

... France is the genius among nations.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.