Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle