One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

The world is no nursery.