London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.