Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.