Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.