It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

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

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.