Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.