The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

You must render: never report.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food