I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.