Edmond de Goncourt

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.