Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Children need models rather than critics.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.