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

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.