Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

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.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.