“To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.”

A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Awards don’t really mean much.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.

I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.