The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence o… - André Maurois

The true sporting spirit has always something religious about it.

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.

Reading, like all work, has its rules. A perfect knowledge of a few writers and a few subjects is more valuable than a superficial one of a great many. The fine points of a piece of writing are seldom apparent at first reading. In youth, one should search among books as one searches the world for friends, and once these friends are found, chosen, and adopted, one must go into retirement with them. Intimacy with Montaigne, Saint Simon, Retz, Balzac, or Proust would be enough to enrich one's whole life.