If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
Politeness is organized indifference.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.