Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.