Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

America is one long expectoration.