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

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.