The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.