You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.