I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.