Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.