Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

The heart was made to be broken.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.