It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

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.

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

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.