The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.