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?

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.