Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

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

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.