The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.