Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.