Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

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

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.