The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.