Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.