Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.