Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.