Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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