All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.