Quotes from Paul Bourget

The forests have taught man liberty.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.