You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.