We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.