Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.