It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.