The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.