It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.