It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.