For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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.

Reading brings us unknown friends

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.