Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.