Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.