A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)