The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.