Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.