Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.