I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.