I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.