America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.