Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.