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

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

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.