There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Originality provokes originality.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.