Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Going home must be like going to render an account.