Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

The French are predictably unpredictable.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.