Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.