Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.