Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.