Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

Intelligent women always marry fools

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.