Progress is the realization of utopia.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.