A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.