The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.