“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

— André Maurois, Un Art de Vivre (1939), The Art of Friendship

About André Maurois

1885 – 1967

French author and biographer, author of "The Art of Living".

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

“The blend of admiration and compassion is one of the surest recipes for love.”

“There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”