It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Reading brings us unknown friends

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.