It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.