Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.