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.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Every woman is a rebel.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.