Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

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

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.