Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.