It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.