Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

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

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.