“Life is real, not ideal.”
“Love in full life and length, not love ideal,No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,But something better still, so very real...”
“But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.”
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”