The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

Fame is a constant effort

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.