The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.