In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.