One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

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

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.