Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.