To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

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.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.