There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.
It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.