Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.