Custom alone regulates morals.
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
It is not customary to love what one has.
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
The impotence of God is infinite.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Change is the essence of life.
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
The more you say, the less they remember.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.