Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned