Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.