Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

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.

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

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.