My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.