It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
