One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.