Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.