Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.