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

Style is to forget all styles.

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

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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