At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

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

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.