Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.