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.

Novels are longer than life.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

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

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.